Some Kind of Love by Anna Bloom
by Anna Bloom
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I hadn’t planned to ever return to the small town of my childhood.
It suffocated me.
It also had Freddy Bale and I definitely didn’t plan on seeing him again.
He broke my eighteen year old heart and left me with secrets which have weighed heavy on my soul.
Now I’m back. I have no choice but to be here. Back with secrets.
What if there’s a chance for us though? What if we could have a life, a future together? The time that I spend with him makes me think we could be something.
The problem is my heart belongs to someone else, someone I will always love more than Freddy. Someone who could ruin any chance I have with the man I was meant to be with.
Life is never easy and love is even harder.
- File Name:some-kind-of-love-by-anna-bloom.epub
- Original Title:Some Kind of Love: A Second Chance Romance
- Creator:Anna Bloom
- Language:en
- Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B09YHPD4RR
- Date:2022-06-29T18:30:00+00:00
- File Size:449.211 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Title Page
- 2. Contents
- 3. Dear Advanced Reader
- 4. Prologue
- 5. Homecoming
- 6. Cars
- 7. Snow
- 8. Meals on Wheels
- 9. Visitors
- 10. Magic
- 11. the deal
- 12. Tea
- 13. Town
- 14. Birthday
- 15. Revelations
- 16. Weekend
- 17. Playing House
- 18. Roses
- 19. Dinner
- 20. January
- 21. Hospitals
- 22. Cherry blossoms
- 23. Recovery
- 24. Truths
- 25. Chances
- 26. dating
- 27. body parts
- 28. wake-up calls
- 29. girls
- 30. parenting
- 31. in the night
- 32. time
- 33. spanners
- 34. history
- 35. birthdays
- 36. burn
- 37. black
- 38. ashes
- 39. beginnings
- 40. unravelling
- 41. truth
- 42. Some kind of love
- 43. Epilogue
- 44. Coming Soon
Anna Bloom
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Some Kind of Love was about 28-year-old Amber (French) Williamson, a writer, and 30-year-old Fred "Freddy" Bale, the middle Bale brother, and the owner of a local garage.
Freddy and Amber met when she was 17 (he was 19) after her car had broken down on a cold, snowy night, which was the beginning of their relationship. A year later, Freddy was recovering from being hurt in an accident. It took him a minimum of six months to recover, during which Amber was at his side as much as possible to help and support him. On the day of her senior prom, she learned that he had been moved to a convalescing room in the hospital because he had improved enough that he was able to stand using crutches (sticks is what they called it). It was during the visit that she presented him with an acceptance letter to a local college. Before the accident, she had planned to attend a school far from their small town, but she made a different choice so that she could stay close to the boy she loved. Although she hadn't wanted to attend prom without him, he had convinced her to do so. But then she got the shock of her life when he showed up to dance with her. There was just one problem. Freddy wasn't smiling, and he seemed to be struggling with something. When she asked him about it, he told her he needed to take a break from their relationship and "see what else is out there in the world before we settle. So we're sure". The reason he gave her was that their love was "too easy" and that no one finds their HEA at 18 and 20 years of age. The way he worded things told her that her mother had gotten to him because she recalled a conversation between her and her mother where she was told she needed to "wait ten years before settling down". Even though Freddy denied it, she knew the other woman had gotten to him and interfered with their relationship. However, try as she might, Freddy didn't change his mind, so she told him there would be no second chances for the two of them. If he chose to search for other options, they were over for good. After telling her he wouldn't change his mind, they said their final goodbyes and she walked away, leaving not only Freddy behind but also her family and the small town she'd known her entire life. It would be ten years before they would see each other again, but things would never be the same.
Amber returned home to a mother who was succumbing to early onset dementia (her father had passed away the year before), a house that had fallen into disrepair (and could have made an excellent episode of the television show "Hoarders"), a nine-year-old son who didn't know his real father and a former BFF to whom she hadn't spoken in ten years. The only thing that wasn't made clear until much later was the fact she was that her husband hadn't agreed to a divorce.
I hated that the story was told only from Amber's POV because then we didn't get to know what was going on with Freddy. There was also the fact that for the first 13 chapters of the story, the two main characters were rarely ever together and, when they were, they hardly said anything of significance. Then Freddy showed up after her estranged husband left, pulled her outside, told her he didn't care if she was married, and that he had been waiting for her to come home. Then he kissed her?! Which got interrupted by a freaking flashback and never returned to the scene?! No explanations, no conversation, nada! WTF?! It was frustrating as hell. Then there was the fact that, although she was separated and her son called the man "Dad", he was only mentioned but rarely took part in the story.
The story was okay. It had plenty of angst and more than enough drama, but it lacked in every other way. The emotional rollercoaster had very few twists and turns. There were no surprises to pique the reader's interest. Even the spice level was almost non-existent. The push/pull between the two main characters was weak and felt contrived. Any contention was like a paper towel that disintegrated at the first sign of water.
Neither of the main characters felt fully developed, and they certainly weren't mature for the ages they were supposed to be. The fact that the 9-year-old son was allowed to denigrate his mother was disappointing too, and he did it for most of the times he was in the story.
The language of the book was dated, making it feel like the characters were from the 1970s or 1980s, which was uncomfortable, to say the least. And, BOY, did I detest the timing of each flashback! Every. Single. One. Came at the worst possible time. They were not only disruptive, but they were out of place for the most part. Some of them didn't fit with the subject that the present timing ended before they flashed back. They also made the book longer than necessary.
There were too many things wrong with this book for it to be given a full five-star rating. I couldn't even honestly give it a four-star rating, and I struggled with whether or not to do three stars. I ended up giving it two-and-a-half stars, rounded up to three.
So, this book! It was hard reading at first, because it has a lot of British dialect and the "past" chapters were all in tiny cursive, making it hard to read. Loved the characters and the story. It did get boring half way through, so I started skimming, then something happened and I read the rest of the way. I am glad they got a HEA. Overall an ok read.